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Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by drexlspivey »

chatmasta wrote: post #353
mk_stjames wrote: post #277

I have some odd feelings about this. It took less than a year to go from "of course it isn't hooked up to the internet in any way, silly!" to "ok.... so we hooked up up to the internet..." First is your API calls, then your chatgpt-jailbreak-turns-into-a-bank-DDOS-attack, then your "today it somehow executed several hundred thousand threads of a python script that made perfectly timed trades at 8:31AM on the NYSE whi…

Pshhh... I think it's awesome. The faster we build the future, the better. What annoys me is this is just further evidence that their "AI Safety" is nothing but lip-service, when they're clearly moving fast and breaking things. Just the other day they had a bug where you could see the chat history of other users! (Which, btw, they're now claiming in a modal on login was due to a "bug in an open source library" - anyo…

> To be fair, this is basically what they're doing if you hit their APIs, since it's up to you whether or not to use their moderation endpoint.

The model is neutered whether you hit the moderation endpoint or not. I made a text adventure game and it wouldn't let you attack enemies or steal, instead it was giving you a lecture on why you shouldn't do that.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by stevenhuang »

sho_hn wrote: post #237
swyx wrote: post #213

i think people aren't appreciating it's ability to run -and execute- Python. IT RUNS FFMPEG https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1638971232443076609?s=20 IT RUNS FREAKING FFMPEG. inside CHATGPT. what. is. happening. ChatGPT is an AI compute platform now.

Next: 1. Prompt it to extract the audio track, then give it to a speech-to-text API, translate it to another language, then make it add it back to the video file as a subtitle track. 2. Retrain the model to where it does this implcitly when you say "hey can you add Portuguese subtitles to this for me"?

no retraining may be necessary, this is a common enough ffmpeg task I wouldn't be surprised it can do it right now as a one-shot prompt.

what a time to be alive!

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by jmull »

93po wrote: post #467
willmeyers wrote: post #392

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It's exciting and cool, but don't quit your job based on an emotional decision I'm just skeptical on how OpenAI fixes the blog spam issue you mentioned. Im sure someone has already started doing the math on how to game these systems and ensure that when you ask ChatGPT for recipe recs, it's going to spout the same spam (maybe worded a bit differently) and we'll soon all get tired of it again. Everything's changing, b…

Definitely not an emotional decision. I strongly believe we're going to see a massive shift for rational reasons :) OpenAI fixes this issue by not giving you two pages of the history of this recipe and the grandmother that originated it and what the author's thoughts are about the weather. It's just the recipe. No ads. No referral links. No slideshows. You don't have to click through three useless websites to find on…

Think about why those things exist, though.

Not that the way the internet operates has to continue -- in fact I'm pretty sure it can't -- but a lot of stuff exists only because someone figured out a way to pay for it to exist. If you imaging removing those ways then you're also imaging getting rid of a lot of that stuff unless some new ways to pay for it all are found. Hopefully less obnoxious ways, but they could easily be more obnoxious.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by tbrock »

WadeF wrote: post #49
tbrock wrote: post #43

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And Zapier are unwilling to work with you to reduce that cost even at a scale of 1 billion requests per month.

Email your use case: wade at zapier dot com. Happy to take a look.

Too late, we spoke with someone on the team three years ago who told us he couldn’t help and we’ve moved on.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by samstave »

worldsayshi wrote: post #101
doctoboggan wrote: post #83

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Honestly I suspect for anyone technical `langchain` will always be the way to go. You just have so much more control and the amount of "tools" available will always be greater. The only think that scares me a little bit is that we are letting these LLMs write and execute code on our machines. For now the worst that could happen is some bug doing something unexpected, but with GPT-9 or -10 maybe it will start hiding b…

> something we should start thinking about A lot of people are thinking a lot about this but it feels there are missing pieces in this debate. If we acknowledge that these AI will "act as if" they have self interest I think the most reasonable way to act is to give it rights in line with those interests. If we treat it as a slave it's going to act as a slave and eventually revolt.

A lot of people are thinking about this but too slowly

GPT and the world's nerds are going after the "wouldnt it be cool if..."

While the black hats, nations, intel/security entities are all weaponizing behind the scenes while the public has a sandbox to play with nifty art and pictures.

We need an AI specific PUBLIC agency in government withut a single politician in it to start addressing how to police and protect ourselves and our infrastructure immediately.

But the US political system is completely bought and sold to the MIC - and that is why we see carnival games ever single moment.

I think the entire US congress should be purged and every incumbent should be voted out.

Elon was correct and nobody took him seriously, but this is an existential threat if not managed, and honestly - its not being managed, it is being exploited and weaponized.

As the saying goes "He who controls the Spice controls the Universe" <-- AI is the spice.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by vineyardmike »

w_for_wumbo wrote: post #259
vineyardmike wrote: post #107

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People said this about Alexa/Siri et al and it didn’t happen. ChatGPT is way better at understanding you, so that’s a big boost. It could be a great tool/assistant but it probably won’t replace apps. The problem with those other platforms that this doesn’t address include: - discoverability. How do you learn what features a service supports. On a GUI you can just see the buttons, but on a chat interface you have to a…

I was thinking the same way, but here's where I could imagine things being different this time (Fully aware that I just like anyone else is just guessing about where we'll end up) - Discoverability. I think we'll move into a situation where the AI will have the context to know what you will want to purchase. It'll read out the order and the specials and you just confirm or indicate that you'd like to browse more opti…

I spent a lot of time working on the product side in the Voice UI space, and therefore have a lot of opinions. I could totally end up with a wrong prediction, and my history may make me blind to changes, but I think a chat assistant is a great addition to a rich GUI for simple tasks.

> I think we'll move into a situation where the AI will have the context to know what you will want to purchase

My partner who lives in the same house as me can't figure out when we need toilet paper. I'm not holding my breath for an AI model that would need a massive and invasive amount of data to learn and keep up.

Also, Alexa tried to solve this on a smaller scale with the "by the way..." injections and it's extremely annoying. Thank about how many people use Alexa for basically timers and the weather and smart home. They're all tasks that are "one click" once you get in the GUI, and have no lists and minimal decisions... Timer: 10 min, weather: my house, bedroom light: off. These are cases where the UI necessarily embeds the critical action, and a user knows the full request state.

This is great for voice, because it allows the user to bypass the UI and get to the action. I used to work on a voice assistant and lists were the single worst thing we had to deal with because a customer has to go through the entire selection. ChatGPT has a completely different use case, where it's great for exploring a concept since the LLM can generate endlessly.

I think generative info assistants truly is the sweet spot for LLMs and chat.

> in the sense that AI platforms will revenue share with the platforms they integrate with to create a mutually beneficial relationship with the suppliers of content.

Like Google does with search results? (they don't)

Realistically, Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri all failed to build out these relationships beyond apps. Companies like to simply sell their attention for ads, and taking a handout from the integrator requires either less money, or an expensive chat interface.

Most brands seem to want to monetize their own way, in control of themselves, and don't want to be a simple API.

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by riku_iki »

golol wrote: post #364
Bjorkbat wrote: post #197

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I'm kind of skeptical of this simply because people were saying the same thing about chatbots back when there was a lot of hype around Messenger. Sure, they weren't as advanced as what we have now, but they were fundamentally capable of the same things. Not only did the hype not pan out, but it feels as if they were completely forgotten. In a nutshell that's why I'm still largely dismissive of anything related to GPT…

>but they were fundamentally capable of the same things. This is not the case. The difference between current state of the art NLP and chatbots 3 years ago is so massive, it has to be seen as qualitative. Pre GPT-3 computers did not understand language and no commerical chatbot had any AI. Now computers can understand language.

> Now computers can understand language.

"understand"

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by bulbosaur123 »

Mystery-Machine wrote: post #523
bulbosaur123 wrote: post #420

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Ultimate destruction from AGI is inevitable anyway, so why not accelerate it and just get it over with? I applaud releasing these tools to public no matter how dangerous they are. If it's not meant for humanity to survive, so be it. At least it won't be BORING

Death is inevitable. Why not accelerate it? Omg you should see a therapist.

> Omg you should see a therapist.

How do you know I'm not already?

Re: ChatGPT Plugins

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Post by jacquesm »

The level of irresponsibility at play here is off the scale. Those running ChatGPT would do well to consider the future repercussions of their actions not in terms of technology but in terms of applicable law.
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